Episode Report Card Joe R: C | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Less You Know
By Joe R | Season 3 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.30.2007
Veronica throws an arm around Mac's shoulders and asks if, prior to heading to Parker's party, they might meet up so Mac could bash her over the head with a hammer a few times. Mac's all, "Tempting. But they asked me to help set up." Veronica takes a rain check on that action and continues on her way. Her way takes her to Wallace and Piz, who seem to be headed back from some quad football. She cheerfully mentions Parker's party and asks if they're both up for some "strength in numbers" action. Wallace says that he's in, and he starts to say that Piz has other plans, but Piz barrels over him and says he'd be happy to come. Veronica, meanwhile, spots someone with a "Sneed Batmen" sweatshirt on (this guy is #7) and is all, "Kthanksbye!" Wallace follows Piz inside their room and asks if he didn't have a "Yo-Yo Taco" event on Saturday. Piz goes, "Yo La Tengo. But this sounds like more fun." Wallace sighs and says Piz is like one of those people who stand behind the poker players in Vegas but don't play a hand themselves. Piz hates a poker analogy as much as I do and is like, "Your point?" Wallace makes the obligatory and oh-so-original observation that Piz needs to "go all in" at some point. He says he's taking Piz out, and he's going to talk to a girl who knows he's alive. Presumably once that criteria is reached, Piz can move on to girls who actually like him. I'd suggest not starting with bars frequented by Veronica Mars message boarders.
Veronica's caught up with "Sneed Batmen" guy, and I am 99% sure he's played by a former Road Rules cast member. "Dave"? I think his name is Dave. And I'm pretty sure he was boring. Anyway, "Dave"? says that "Sneed" stands for "Sneed Hall," and the Batmen are Sneed's intramural softball team. Veronica uses a basic "I was flirting with number 11 the other day and I don't know his name, can you help" ruse, and "Dave" (?) is all too happy to say that number 11 is one Jason Cohen.
Cut to Veronica pulling up in front of the "Zeta Epsilon house," which is Hearst's Jewish fraternity, of which Jason is a part. Ah, so we've got Arabs and Jews. NOW it's a party. As Veronica's checking out the house, she spots something flashing in the adjacent tree. VMVO sums up what happens next nicely: "Peeping Tom in a tree, takes off on a bike. I feel like I stumbled into a Benny Hill sketch." Oh, what I wouldn't give for a zany Benny Hill chase scene to liven this episode up. Veronica then spots a couple who have come to the front door to try and spot the peeping pervert who was just snapping pics at them. Veronica gets A Look on her face and approaches the couple: it's Amira, and the boy is Jason Cohen. "Better question," snots Amira, "why the hell are you here?" We fade to commercial before anyone can ponder if Kristin Cavallari could have actually delivered that line better. When we return, Veronica accuses Jason of "skulking" around Amira's parents' restaurant. Amria's like, "He wasn't skulking; he's my boyfriend, and oh by the way, I'm going to kill Nasir." Veronica doesn't recognize the name from the last time it was portentously dropped, so Amira exposits on her own: Nasir works at Babylon Gardens, but his student visa has expired, so he's here illegally. In addition, Amira's supposed to marry the guy. But now that he's got photos of her with her Jewish boyfriend, he's going to fink her out to her dad and she'll be disowned. Amira sad-faces to Veronica until Veronica's like, "Fine, I'll track down your mail-order husband and get your naughty pics back for you." At first I thought Amira was playing on Veronica's sympathies in order to cover up something shadier. Now I just think she's being portrayed by a terrible actress. In addition, no one gives any thought to why Nasir, whose visa is expired, would want to queer the deal that would make him a citizen by revealing Amira to be a Jew-boinking hussy. I mean, sure, the fact that he's willing to throw his immigration status away over his disgust at female sexual liberation and Judaism says a lot about him as a person, but I don't think the connection ever gets made, and it's too bad.
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